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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
On the way to language
Book by Martin Heidegger |
As a frame of reference for difficulty if you’re considering this and you’ve read some of Chomsky’s linguistics this is easier to wrap your head around than Chomsky. These are mostly lectures so a natural comparison would be Chomky’s
Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures. Even though The Managua Lectures is considered to be on Noam’s more accessible side it’s still tough going. Both books deal specifically with the relationship between thought and language. The lack of language leaving us in an abyss. What implications does this have on instrumental music? Well, language is going to ground you somewhere else. That, too, is an important and fundamental experience- but in order to experience music untethered by distraction we must look for it in instrumentals to enjoy it in an open field of consciousness.